EnCorps Recruits and Transitions STEM Professionals to Teaching
Barbara Shannon, brings 50 years of expertise in STEM training to EnCorps
Julian Arthur Lewis, brings 34 years of government, technical and management expertise within the aerospace sector to EnCorps
Barbara Shannon, Ed.D and Juilan Arthur Lewis, MSc, CM, CTE are the most recent members of EnCorps’ Board of Directors
— Sherry Lansing, Founder and Chair of EnCorps’ Board of Directors
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, September 8, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The EnCorps STEM Teachers Program is worked up to announce the addition of two new board members with deep STEM training and trade data: Barbara Shannon, Ed.D and Julian Arthur Lewis, MSc, CM, CTE. Ms. Shannon is the co-founder and founding principal of Synergy Kinetic and Synergy Quantum Academies in South Los Angeles and brings 50 years of STEM training to EnCorps. In flip, Mr. Lewis is an alumni of the EnCorps STEM Teacher Program and brings 34 years of government, technical and management expertise within the aerospace sector.
The breadth of STEM training and skilled expertise of EnCorps’ latest Board members will help the nonprofit in attaining its mission of closing the chance hole for college kids of coloration in under-resourced communities. Board members are tasked with setting insurance policies and procedures that guarantee EnCorps reaches its targets of recruiting and transitioning STEM professionals to the educating career. Board members are additionally vocal training advocates locally.
“I am honored to welcome our new board members, Barbara and Julian. They both bring a lifetime of relevant STEM education and work experience as well as an unwavering passion for educational equity,” mentioned Sherry Lansing, Founder and Chair of EnCorps’ Board of Directors.
The newly elected members, who will serve for a renewable two-year time period, carry the EnCorps Board of Directors to 6 energetic members, with a objective of getting 9 board members by the tip of June 2023. Meet the EnCorps Board of Directors.
2022 ADDITIONS TO ENCORPS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Barbara Shannon, Ed.D, As a co-founder and founding principal of Synergy Kinetic and Synergy Quantum Academies in South Los Angeles. Barbara brings 50 years of expertise in STEM training to EnCorps. She has taught in parochial, non-public, and public colleges in grades 6-12, labored as a medical laboratory scientist and accomplished analysis at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and City of Hope.
Barbara started her educating profession at John Adams Junior High School in 1973. In 1977 when she left John Adams, she promised to return and carry the identical alternatives for the scholars that she had seen in colleges in Beverly Hills and different prosperous areas. While engaged on her dissertation, Barbara visited specialised colleges of science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) and knew that is what she wished to see in South Los Angeles.
She envisioned a vibrant faculty group the place college students, dad and mom, academics, counselors, and help employees labored collectively to result in modifications that may make sure that the scholars had been ready for the alternatives that may come. What she discovered was hardworking dad and mom who wished their youngster to have a greater life than that they had; academics, counselors, and help employees who believed that each pupil might be profitable if given the chance and correct help.
Julian Arthur Lewis, MSc, CM, CTE
An inspirational supporter of training, Julian is a Certified Technical Educator who has taught graduate, under-graduate and highschool programs. Julian is an EnCorps STEM Teachers Program Educator who met Executive Director Katherine Wilcox whereas each served on the Advisory Board for STEM Academy of Hollywood High School.
Before educating, Julian was a Full Spectrum Leader with 34 years of government, technical and management expertise supporting expertise plane packages and vital aerospace initiatives.
Julian served as a member of Lockheed Martin Associates Company Executive Leadership Team because the Director of Diversity reporting to the President from December 2007 to November 2009. He is thought to have worn many hats together with: Lockheed Martin African American Leadership West Region Director; Executive Board Advisor for the Lockheed Employee Recreation Club; Chairman of the Board, President, Vice President, and Director of Professional Development for the Lockheed Martin Leadership Association. He retired after 34 years of service because the Director of Modification, Maintenance and Flight Operations for the U-2 reconnaissance plane in 2013.
Julian earned Masters Degrees in Aeronautical Science, Aeronautics and Aviation & Aerospace Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He possesses certifications from the FAA, FCC and Delta Airlines. He earned the licensed Manager (CM) credential from James Madison University and accomplished Lockheed Martin’s Executive and Management Development by Growth Enhancement/Management and Financial Strategies packages. He additionally accomplished the UCLA Management System Development Projects curriculum.
About EnCorps STEM Teachers Program
The EnCorps STEM Teachers Program empowers science, expertise, engineering and math (STEM) professionals to rework public training by educating in excessive wants colleges. Enduring STEM achievement, entry, and literacy gaps disproportionately restrict low earnings, under-resourced, and minority pupil alternatives. STEM professionals, when totally ready, are uniquely positioned to meaningfully make the most of their expertise and real-world experience as EnCorps STEM Teachers to ship an genuine, rigorous, and related STEM training to the scholars who want it most. EnCorps is an progressive, long-term resolution to the scarcity of top quality, impactful educators for under-resourced college students in excessive wants colleges.
Nathalie Benoit
EnCorps STEM Teachers Program
+1 424-367-3660 ext. 300
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